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LP> * Original Date: 01-08-97  19:50
LP> * Original Area: NetMail
LP>From: "Carl E. Olsen" 
LP>Subject: Elvy Musikka
LP>Statement and Question for Barry McCaffrey
LP>Tuesday, January 7, 1997, 6:00 p.m.
LP>   My name is Elvy Musikka.  I'm patient number three of eight who
LP>currently receive medical marijuana from the federal government of the
LP>United States.  My illness is glaucoma and I've been receiving marijuana
LP>since 1988.
LP>   By 1991, I am aware of at least fifty patients who were approved by the
LP>FDA (Food and Drug Administration), the DEA (Drug Enforcement
LP>Administration) and the NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse), after
LP>their doctor's recommendation, documentation and extensive medical 
ecords.
LP> Thirty-six of them never did receive the medical marijuana for which they
LP>were approved.  But all of us were able to prove to the FDA, the DEA and
LP>the NIDA that, for us, marijuana isn't just a medicine, it is the most
LP>effective, efficient and reliable part of our treatment, and the safest 
ne
LP>as well.
LP>   I represent 49 million disabled Americans, most of whose illnesses can
LP>be greatly alleviated with medical marijuana.
LP>   In view of the mandates that the voters of California and Arizona have
LP>sent to the federal government to stop its war on us, will you now find 
he
LP>compassion necessary to eliminate the suffering for all of those people 
ho
LP>are seriously ill, their friends, relatives and physicians, who constitute
LP>a large segment of the almost 600,000 people we arrested last year with
LP>this blasphemy on the creator's work that we know as hemp, cannabis,
LP>marijuana prohibition?
LP>   That is my question to the General, my statement and my question.  So 
f
LP>you can make some use of that and include that, I think it's really
LP>important that the general population hear that there are eight of us
LP>legally smoking with doctor's prescriptions in this country, and that by
LP>1991 at least fifty of us were approved, even though thirty-six of those
LP>people never saw medical marijuana.  And the tragedy of it is that they 
re
LP>now on very hard addictive drugs that are robbing them of their normal 
ife
LP>and access to their own mind.
LP>-- END u-
LP>Elvy Musikka
LP>Post Office Box 6067, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33081, 954-966-4238
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LP>*  Carl E. Olsen                *  carl@commonlink.net                *
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